American - Educator | February 12, 1939 -
As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.
Leon Kass
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Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents and children.
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The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.
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There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
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Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
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Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
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An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
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Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
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Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
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I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
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I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
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I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.
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